[acc-cca-l] May 15th Online Webinar: Toward an African Indigenous Rhetorical Orientation

[Sibo Chen]

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Dear Colleagues,

Please find below an upcoming online webinar on the topic of "Toward an African Indigenous Rhetorical Orientation" We look forward to seeing many of you there. Please feel free to share this information among your networks.

Best Regards
Sibo Chen
Toronto Metropolitan University

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When: May 15, 2025 07:30 PM Vancouver
Topic:  Toward an African Indigenous Rhetorical Orientation: Convivial Rhetoric and Rhetorical Cartography

Register in advance for this webinar:
https://torontomu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZOanLfNTQY-LHfi46PAnAg

Webinar ID: 928 9992 7294
Passcode: 392021

Introduction: This talk attempts to do two things: first, Dr. Kundai Chirindo will present what he is provisionally calling an “African Indigenous Rhetorical Orientation” by proposing how the idea of conviviality might intersect with rhetorical cartography, and rhetorical studies more generally. Second, he will turn to spatial counter-narratives to illustrate how meanings of Africa are contested, reified, and (re)constituted in the twenty-first century. He will illustrate his arguments briefly by discussing three examples of rhetorical cartography. Together we will reconsider the “color line” made famous by W. E. B. Du Bois; we will hear the seldom heard story of the U. S.’s first Black African Ambassador; and we will follow Colombia’s first Vice-President of African descent, Her Excellency Francia Elena Márquez Mina on her first official travels. As Dr. Chirindo does this, he will point out the liberatory, pedagogical, and African praxes of convivial placemaking. Bio: Kundai Chirindo is Associate Professor and Chair in the Rhetoric and Media Studies department and was the Inaugural Director of General Education (2020-2025) at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. Born in Zimbabwe, he earned his Ph. D. at the University of Kansas after earning degrees at Bethel University in Minnesota. He is a rhetorical scholar interested in discourses that relate to the African continent. Kundai’s work centers on discursive practices that contest, contribute to, and ultimately constitute ideas of Africa in American public life. Through exploring these themes, he contributes to conversations in rhetorical studies, environmental communication, African and African American Studies, and war and peace studies. His critical essays, commentaries, and book reviews have appeared in journals including Advances in the History of Rhetoric (now Journal for the History of Rhetoric), American Political Thought, Argumentation & Advocacy, Argumentation & Advocacy, etc.

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Sibo Chen (he/him)
Associate Professor
School of Professional Communication
Toronto Metropolitan University (Formerly Ryerson University)

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